Ecosia Reviews 

Ecosia is..AMAZING!!! The second I found it, i was in love. The way that all you need to do is search something then BAM a tree is planted is incredible! they make something so little into a HUGE thing.And I defintely advise that everyone, and l mean everyone, uses it. I would just like to say Thank You to Ecosia for making such a brilliant impact on our world.
Written by: Sophie - age 11

I find Ecosia a helpful, environmentally friendly search engine. The concept is good and I do want to help plant trees. I think it a good and free ways to plant trees.

I've planted a couple of trees so far (it says that every 45 searches is enough for 1 tree, I guess it depends on how many ad links you use) You can even make scammers pay for the trees by clicking on their obvious scam advert links like if you search "btc" and then click on the nonsense ad links like "Make $1234 a day from bitcoin!"

They don't censor websites / search results either like everyone's favourite blatantly has been doing for years.

Amazing idea and all the congrats to the people behind Ecosia. On the tech side is 1 star, to be honest. The search engine it is using is just not good enough to compete with at least Bing, not to mention Google. I know that the idea behind the concept really matters most but at the same time they should offer a decent search engine.

Perfect solution for people who are environmentally conscious but don’t have the means to contribute.

Ecosia is really easy to use online, or through their apps for apple and android. I switched 6 months ago and have never looked back.

The website and app are really clear and easy to use with a layout which is very similar to Google. Indeed their search engine is powered by Google so you still get fantastic search results, whilst planting trees.

I think everyone should switch to Ecosia. It's completely free, but if everyone did it we could make a massive difference!

I am happy that i could participate in such a great initiative but unfortunately searches in greek, which is my first language, are mostly irrelevant and i am forced to change my search engine.
Great idea! I would love to come back when it improves.

this is cool. im saving the earth :)

I love that I am able to easily make a difference in the world by doing something I do all the time in my daily life: search the Internet. It's something a lot of us do without even thinking. The ads are non-obtrusive, as they are something you just get used to with any other search engine.
Sometimes, though, the search results come out a little weird and slightly irrelevant. That would probably be my only complaint.

in our company we always use ecosia to make a difference in the world and help plant more tress, the search engine is very good too. At the begging we were all used to google search and it was difficult to make the change but once we have done it, it was so simple

While the idea supporting the financing of reforestation is good and does mobilise the support of many, this organisation has to do better in ensuring it has an actual impact. They are otherwise wasting everyone's time and monies.
As someone who works in the sector and has had direct experience with Ecosia and some of their partners, I am troubled by their low expectations. Tree planting without a serious and carefully thought out programme does not work. Hoping for the best is not good enough. Reporting outputs (results of activities) is not the same as impact. That is why I would support organisations with serious impact protocols and processes.

Great idea and such a simple, easy way of making a difference in the world

Absolutely great idea! The search results are sometimes a little off but never irrelevant. I am in love with the idea that I only have to install the browser and then go about my day, looking up random stuff and studying like I always do. No extra effort needed to plant these trees, only the patience from some sometimes weird search results.

I Will recomend this to anyone who wants to help support a good cause!

I really like the idea of Ecosia! I like helping the environment and this is a great way of doing this. I have stopped using it though because I don't like the layout of the mobile app and the search results aren't the best. I would recommend it for helping the environment, but not for search results.

Really excellent search engine that leaves Google in the dust and if you compare search results you begin to clearly see how Ecosia hasn't monetised its results. Google wants you to pay them to adjust your listing's position in their page results.

I'm using Ecosia from now on

Been using the search engine a couple of days now on my desktop without any problems. Very happy with my switch away from Google. Did get redirected back to Google for maps as Ecosia doesn't have that function but that didn't bother me. More to the point, we have just 12 years to avoid dangerous climate change and keep to 1.5 degrees global warming (according to UN scientists recent report). The more trees we plant to absorb carbon emissions, the better. Its a great concept.

Like, I would switch full on to ecosia if you just added the mini games that like google does on their logo? Like, totally, 100% would. Like, you have no idea. If you do that, my rating will go up to 5 stars and I'll like, plant as many trees as you want, like, totally.

Thanks xoxo uwu

The idea is brilliant and of course it takes nothing to use Ecosia instead of a different web browser but I have found it is just not very good as a search engine.

The web can be slow at my work at the best of times but since using ecosia I have searches 'time out' and web pages not available (which are instantly available if I switch to Google - my previous default). It was really easy to go to my web setting and 'disable' ecosia though.

I have also found the relevance of my searches is quite off - not just in terms of distance but also common sense. For example, I wanted the homepage of an organisation but ecosia has only showed me a link to a random page on their website (not home/main page) so I have to click that and then click the company's 'homepage' button...just a backwards way of doing things.

I would love to use ecosia long term but until these bugs get sorted I don't see people sticking around for long.

Very good idea! Making our World better place by planting forests... and by only using this search engine! Very good :)

Pretty poor at searching. I tried looking for something 'near me'. I live in Scotland and it gave me results in Derbyshire!